Editing The Cold War (section)

==Notes==
[[File:Superman vs Racism.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Superman's greatest victories were against IRL racists]]
*This time saw the beginning of a major societal push-back against racism. There were numerous factors behind this, from the response to Nazi atrocities during WWII to the collapse of Colonial Empires to the success of the Civil Rights movement to concerns that a large disenfranchised section of the populace in the US could be receptive to the communist message. There were of course precursors to this before the war, issues were not resolved over night, push-back (see the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_State_Sovereignty_Commission Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission] for an egregious example) and issues that still to this day if usually in a more rarefied or covert form, but for sake of brevity from the 1940s onward overt racism became increasingly unpalatable.
*Television! The basics of TV were developed in the 1910s and 20s by (among others) Paul Nipkow, Kenjiro Takayanagi and Philo Farnsworth and there was a bit of broadcasting in the 1930s which was disrupted by WWII. Even so, it really caught on after the War as broadcasts resumed and by the 1950s spread to basically everywhere on earth. First in black and white, with colour TV replacing it in the 60s and 70s. TV was a sign of modernity, economic and technological success and a way to get one's message around the world with nations developing the capacity as fast as they could. The one exception was South Africa, [[fail|which only began broadcasting in 1976]] because the [[/pol/|Apartheid government was afraid of it's "corrupting influences" and raise anti-segregationist sentiment]].
*Modernism! Modernism got started before the war with Le Corbusier, Constructivism and the Bauhaus but by the 1950s it really caught on. Love it or hate it, it's austere artificial functionalist minimalism was gold standard for design on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
*While they existed before, the Cold War saw a rise of Youth Culture, Counterculture and Subcultures. From beatniks, greasers and rock & roll in the 50s, Mods and Hippies in the 60s, Punks and the Disco Scene in the 1970s and Metalheads in the 1980s. This was the first time in which it was fairly common for young people to have a bit of disposable income and the ability to mobilize and find cliques that shared common interests and ideas. Speaking of which...
*Science Fiction really came into it's own during this period. This period had a lot of active writers who were writing new and experimental forms of science fiction and synthesizing the raw ideas of the pulp era. Sci-Fi also steadily made it's mark on visual media with TV series such as The Twilight Zone and Star Trek and films such as Forbidden Planet, Planet of the Apes and eventually [[Star Wars]]. Over the course of the Cold War it became more and more mainstream and more refined for both sides. In the 1940s there were cheesy Flash-Gordon movie serials and by the 1980s there was Blade Runner.
*The Fantasy genre as we know it now began to emerge during the Cold War. The [[Lord of the Rings]] was released in 1954-5, Dungeons and Dragons was released in 1978 and [[Games Workshop|our all-time favorite company]] released the beginnings of Warhammer Fantasy in 83. It was still niche by the 1980s and people were in general more likely to look down on a fantasy nerd than a sci-fi nerd, but the elements were there.